John 4:13–26

¹³Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”^{* 15}The woman said to him, “Sir,^g give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”^*

¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” ¹⁷The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband,’ ¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” ¹⁹The woman said to him, “Sir,^h I see that you are a prophet. ²⁰Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but youⁱ say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”^{* 21}Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you^j will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.^{* 22}You^k worship what you^l do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.^{* 23}But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him.^{* 24}God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”^{* 25}The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.”^{* 26}Jesus said to her, “I am he,^m the one who is speaking to you.”^*